Summary of Wildfire Risk Prediction: a Review, by Zhengsen Xu et al.
Wildfire Risk Prediction: A Review
by Zhengsen Xu, Jonathan Li, Sibo Cheng, Xue Rui, Yu Zhao, Hongjie He, Linlin Xu
First submitted to arxiv on: 2 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed review provides a comprehensive overview of wildfire risk prediction methods, highlighting the importance of combining independent variables with regression or machine learning models. The authors categorize independent variables into four aspects: climate and meteorology conditions, socio-economical factors, terrain and hydrological features, and wildfire historical records. They also discuss data preprocessing techniques for different magnitudes, spatial-temporal resolutions, and formats. Additionally, the review covers collinearity and importance estimation methods of independent variables, as well as model performance evaluation metrics. The authors specifically emphasize recent advancements in deep learning methods and highlight the need for more effective time series forecasting algorithms. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Wildfires have big impacts on our environment, animals, and humans. To predict when and where wildfires will happen, scientists use a combination of factors like weather, social factors, terrain, and past fire records. This review looks at different ways to combine these factors using math and computer models. It also talks about how to prepare data for analysis and how to measure the success of different approaches. The authors think that more advanced computer models are needed to improve wildfire risk prediction. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Deep learning » Machine learning » Regression » Time series
